1Something to Protect

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or anything else for that matter

Summery: Two hanyou's meet at an orphanage and become best friends for life not a very good summery but it's really good, Inuyasha x Kagome

I made this up before I went to bed last night so sorry if you don't like it no flames please

--Kagome's POV--

"Filthy hanyou" a large demon boy named Daichi said as he kicked me, a hanyou girl with black dog ears, in the stomach

This was how my life was, getting beat up every day by demons and humans in the orphanage that are bigger than me but I can take it I always could. Almost every bone in my body has been broken at least once and my only possessions are an old beat up teddy bear and the green kimono I wear that was tattered from all of the beatings I took.

After Daichi was done I struggled to crawl over to where my bed was.

My bed was like many others in the orphanage, a small mattress on a rusty metal frame and a tattered old curtain with holes worn into it that went all the way around the bed, the only differences between my bed and the other beds was that it was older and my blanket and pillow had been stolen by some one bigger than me.

I pulled back the curtain and collapsed halfway on the bed

"I can't" I said to no one "I can't get up" no one cared

the last thing I saw before I passed out was another hanyou dressed in red with silver hair and dog ears like Mine carrying a red blanket and a pillow.

–Inuyasha's POV–

"Hey don't pass out on me!!" I said catching her before she crashed to the ground dropping my stuff

I picked her up and set her down on the bed "what happened to her she looks like she was attacked by a demon! What kind of an evil thing does this to a little girl?" I thought out loud looking her over.

"Hey!" a demon boy yelled at me "let me tell you how things work around here we, the demons, do what we please including using you little half breed scum as punching bags so get used to it!"

"Did you do this to her?" I asked trying to sound innocent and weak

"Yeah and the same will happen to you new kid" the demon boy told me

"I doubt it" I told him "why don't you pick on some one your own size and leave little girls alone?"

"Ha you little filthy half breed what are you going to do about it? I beat this wimp every other day" the demon boy said proudly

"If you ever touch her again I will rip out your throat" I snarled. I wanted to protect the hanyou girl on the bed behind me, no one deserved to be treated like that or beat every other day by some hot headed demon boy

"You! you think that you can hurt me?" he laughed "I'll beat you to a pulp and make you watch as I kill your filthy little friend and then you can be our new punching bag, how would you like that?!" he said rushing at me

I clawed at him and dodged one of his fists "I'll make sure she dies a painfully slow death"

"You won't touch her!!" I yelled landing a slash right across his face

"Argh" he yelled clutching his face "you'll both pay dearly for that, no one touches the great Daichi !!" he attempted to grab me but I easily dodged

–Kagome's POV–

I woke up to the sounds of a fight and sat up in my bed'wait I'm in my bed? Who put me in my bed?' then I remembered the silver haired hanyou boy 'did he put me in my bed?'

"You won't touch her!!" an unfamiliar voice yelled interrupting my thoughts

I turned my head to see who had yelled and my heart stopped, it was the hanyou boy! And he was fighting with Daichi ! I wonder what "her" he's yelling about.

Then the unthinkable happened the hanyou boy clawed Daichi across the face! 'He's gonna get killed for that one!' I thought 'no one has ever hit Daichi ! "She" had better be worth it'

"Argh" daichi yelled clutching his face "you'll both pay dearly for that, no one touches the great Daichi!!" he attempted to grab the boy but he avoided his grasps

"The only one that's gonna pay is you!!" the boy yelled and charged at Daichi again "iron reaper soul stealer!!" he yelled cutting Daichi in half in a flash of yellow

I stared in shock, Daichi was dead.

–Inuyasha's POV–

"Keh, what a weakling" I said turning around to face the hanyou girl

"You're awake now, that's good. How are you feeling?" I asked

she looked around for some one else that I could be talking to

"hasn't anyone ever asked you that before?" I asked

she just stared at me

"Hey are you OK?" I asked, I was getting worried now. 'can she talk?'

"I dunno" she said still shocked that anyone cared "sorry, no one usually talks to me unless they want to hurt me"

"Don't apologize!" I cried "the only one that should be apologizing is the people who do this to you!"

"No they shouldn't" she said sadly "I should've never been born I'm half demon scum"

"Don't say that!" I yelled at her "the only ones that are scum are the ones that do this to you!"

Right after I finished she started crying

"Don't cry" 'oh great now you've gone and done it inuyasha you made her cry!'

She cried even harder, I felt bad so I got onto her bed and hugged her

"please, stop crying" I pleaded

"Why are you being so nice to me?" she asked still crying

"Because I don't think any one else is" I said

after she finished crying she introduce herself "my name's Kagome I'm 8"

"I'm Inuyasha I'm 8 too" I said

"How'd you end up here?" she asked

"My human mom died a couple of days ago and I never met my dad but my mom said he was a powerful dog demon that ruled the western lands and he died protecting her"I said going from sad to kind of proud

"Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to bring back any painful memories" she said apologetically

"Don't worry about it" I said not wanting my new friend to cry again "what's you're story?"

"I've been here my whole life, but I've been told a bout my parents, my mom was a powerful miko and my dad was a weak dog demon and my mom saved him from a bunch of demons and they fell in love but were murdered by the angry villagers, my mom hid me from them but I was found and brought here by her sister" she said

"Why didn't your moms sister keep you?" I asked confused

"Because I'm a hanyou" she replied simply

I didn't like the subject so I decided to change it "are there any empty beds?"

"No usually if someone needs a bed they kick me out of this one until a new one comes in and then I get my bed back" she explained

"And where do you sleep while they're in you're bed?" I asked upset at how my friend was treated

"The floor in a corner out of everyone's way" she explained

it was just like mom had said, most hanyou's were trained to think and act like they deserved to be hurt and that they were scum

"Kagome" I asked

"Yeah?"

"Do you like to sleep on the floor?"

"No I hate it and I hate the way they treat me but no one ever told me it was wrong"

"Kagome, I promise that as long as I live I will never let anyone hurt you ever again" I said meaning every word of it

"Thanks Inuyasha" she said "you're so nice to me"

she hugged me catching me off guard but I hugged her back

just then a man came around yelling "time for bed maggots" when he got to us he stopped

"You new hanyou filth" he said pointing to me "there ain't gonna be any new beds so either you share with your filthy friend or one of you sleep on the floor"

I growled at him for calling kagome filthy and was going to yell at him when kagome whispered in my ear "that's onigumo he runs the place, if you want to stay here away from the cold and the rain I suggest you don't make him angry"

I nodded as he walked away

------- normal POV ------------

Once Onigumo was gone Inuyasha spoke up"night Kagome"

with that the little hanyou boy grabbed his things and started arranging them on the floor

"Inuyasha what are you doing!?" kagome asked panicky

"I'm sleeping on the floor" he replied simpily

"No you're not" she said stubbornly trying to stand up but when she tried to stand on her left leg she gasped in pain and fell back on the bed.

"It's probably broken Kagome" Inuyasha said worriedly

"It's no big deal" Kagome said quietly "I'll be fine just help me onto the floor and get in the bed"

"No" he said firmly "you're hurt you need it more than me"

"No I don't you're the only person who has ever stood up for me or been nice to me and you deserve it" 'she's so stubborn' He thought to himself

"No, you are my first true friend and the only person, besides my mom, that hasn't made any remark about me being only half human or only half demon" he said trying to make her stay in the bed

"But I don't want you to sleep on the floor" she said like she was going to cry

"And I sure as heck ain't gonna let you sleep on the floor!" Inuyasha told her

Then she perked up a little "inuyasha I have an idea!" she said happily

"What is it?" he asked wanting to know just what she was thinking

"Let's do what Onigumo said" she said joy still in her voice

"What do you mean?" he asked sitting up confused

"Let's share" she excitedly "that way nobody has to sleep on the floor!"

"Yeah!" he said getting excited by his friends idea (AN: Their little kids give them a break)

After they got situated kagome spoke up again "thanks for being so nice to me, and telling me that how they treated me was bad" she said softly

"no problem" he said hugging his new found friend and they fell asleep like that.

So how'd you like it? Please review I'll update asap, I like to write these so the next chapter should be in a week at the most